Good morning everyone, sorry that this is so long--
It's been a stressful week/weekend here at my house...
I already posted about the grill doused in insecticide (which we were able to fully clean out--yay!)...
I already posted about my dog being hit by a car....and now he is limping around the house post-surgery...
I did NOT post about my husband throwing his back out and barely being able to walk....and that's where this story begins.
Middle of the night--husband needed to use the bathroom and couldn't get out of bed. He was in such pain and agony that he actually cried out and woke the entire household. So now the kids were up and wondering what was going on....I was trying to get him to the bathroom before he had an accident on himself so I just yelled that everything was OK and the kids should just go back to bed.
About that time, I heard all kinds of banging noises down the hall...but obviously did not leave husband to investigate.
The next morning, we awoke to discover that the hallway door had been forced open...so it seems clear that one of the kids had used the chaotic opportunity to sneak out of the house. husband was in NO mood for anything--so he was furious....which set difficult child off--she began threatening all the nasty stuff she was gonna do...and the two of them nearly had a row in the kitchen.
I intervened...I sent husband out to a doctor appointment/then work...I had a talk with the kids about following the household rules...and I set both of them up with a whole list of chores to be done on Friday.
Instead of doing her chores, difficult child had to keep "taking a break". She was supposed to be weeding the flower bed, but every time my back weas turned she'd need to "just use the bathroom for a second"--which meant go hang out in her room until I came looking for her.
Needless to say, I was getting pretty irritated. Her chore was barely done by the time husband came home that afternoon. But he was feeling better, the house was clean, the yard was clean....I thought it was over.
Boy was I wrong!!
Sunday, while I was out grocery shopping--difficult child tells husband that she has evidence that her brother was the one who forced the hallway door and that he needed to be punished. She produced a strange audio-tape with a one-sided conversation from her brother talking about fooling the parents. (Evidently, on one of her "breaks" from work, she had bribed her brother with some stolen candy to participate in recording a few 'jokes' on her tape recorder to play for her friends. They took turns telling jokes, but difficult child conveniently paused the recorder during her own part of the conversation).
So now, it starts all over again...husband gets really angry....difficult child is nearly dancing with glee that her brother will be punished....then DS (who has no intention of being punished for anything) rats out his sister for stealing the candy from her boss and continuing to sneak food from our kitchen...
So husband announces that they are BOTH in trouble and will spend next weekend in his service doing yard work and what-not.
difficult child is LIVID....she feels this is totally unfair (since she had intended for only DS to be in trouble)...and she has been stomping around being miserable and nasty....which I expect to continue all week long until next weekend is over.
The most ridiculous part of this is that if difficult child had not decided to push things by making this ridiculous tape....we probably would not have found out about the candy...and she would not have been in trouble for anything. Instead, she is so angry at the whole family now because we are all being so unfair to her!
Thanks for letting me vent....Hopefully, this will be the end of this week's adventures.
--DaisyF
It's been a stressful week/weekend here at my house...
I already posted about the grill doused in insecticide (which we were able to fully clean out--yay!)...
I already posted about my dog being hit by a car....and now he is limping around the house post-surgery...
I did NOT post about my husband throwing his back out and barely being able to walk....and that's where this story begins.
Middle of the night--husband needed to use the bathroom and couldn't get out of bed. He was in such pain and agony that he actually cried out and woke the entire household. So now the kids were up and wondering what was going on....I was trying to get him to the bathroom before he had an accident on himself so I just yelled that everything was OK and the kids should just go back to bed.
About that time, I heard all kinds of banging noises down the hall...but obviously did not leave husband to investigate.
The next morning, we awoke to discover that the hallway door had been forced open...so it seems clear that one of the kids had used the chaotic opportunity to sneak out of the house. husband was in NO mood for anything--so he was furious....which set difficult child off--she began threatening all the nasty stuff she was gonna do...and the two of them nearly had a row in the kitchen.
I intervened...I sent husband out to a doctor appointment/then work...I had a talk with the kids about following the household rules...and I set both of them up with a whole list of chores to be done on Friday.
Instead of doing her chores, difficult child had to keep "taking a break". She was supposed to be weeding the flower bed, but every time my back weas turned she'd need to "just use the bathroom for a second"--which meant go hang out in her room until I came looking for her.
Needless to say, I was getting pretty irritated. Her chore was barely done by the time husband came home that afternoon. But he was feeling better, the house was clean, the yard was clean....I thought it was over.
Boy was I wrong!!
Sunday, while I was out grocery shopping--difficult child tells husband that she has evidence that her brother was the one who forced the hallway door and that he needed to be punished. She produced a strange audio-tape with a one-sided conversation from her brother talking about fooling the parents. (Evidently, on one of her "breaks" from work, she had bribed her brother with some stolen candy to participate in recording a few 'jokes' on her tape recorder to play for her friends. They took turns telling jokes, but difficult child conveniently paused the recorder during her own part of the conversation).
So now, it starts all over again...husband gets really angry....difficult child is nearly dancing with glee that her brother will be punished....then DS (who has no intention of being punished for anything) rats out his sister for stealing the candy from her boss and continuing to sneak food from our kitchen...
So husband announces that they are BOTH in trouble and will spend next weekend in his service doing yard work and what-not.
difficult child is LIVID....she feels this is totally unfair (since she had intended for only DS to be in trouble)...and she has been stomping around being miserable and nasty....which I expect to continue all week long until next weekend is over.
The most ridiculous part of this is that if difficult child had not decided to push things by making this ridiculous tape....we probably would not have found out about the candy...and she would not have been in trouble for anything. Instead, she is so angry at the whole family now because we are all being so unfair to her!
Thanks for letting me vent....Hopefully, this will be the end of this week's adventures.
--DaisyF
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